Jodhpur: Here are some brief excerpts from the four-hour long question-and-answer session with self-styled godman Asaram Bapu here yesterday at RAC battalion guest house:
Q: What did you do? (Aapne kya kiya?)
A. Nothing (kuch nahin)
Q: Why is the girl doing so? (ladki aisa kyun kar rahi hai?)
A: Don't know. Could be somebody's conspiracy. (Pata nahin. Kisi ki saazish hogi)
Q: Her father is an old devotee of yours. Why should he conspire? ( uska pita aapka itna purana bhakt hai sazish kaise hogi?)
A: Silence.
Q: Why did you call the girl to Manai? ( ladki ko manai kyun bulvaya?)
A: I didn't call her. She came on her own. (maine nahi bulvaya. Wo khud aayi thi.)
Q: If she had come on her own, how did she reach your cottage? (agar khud aayi thi to apki kutiya mein kaise pahunch gayi?)
A: Silence.
Timeline of Asaram Bapu's alleged rape case
